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Entries from Empyreal Environs tagged with “Scutaro (Marco)”

It Is Designed to Break Your Heart

There’s nothing I could say here that hasn’t been stated in a manner infinitely more analytical, anguished, and eloquent elsewhere. Nate Silver neatly dissects the Red Sox’s epic collapse in September. He also concisely computes the dual, dueling improbabilities of the Yankees blowing a seven-run lead and the Red Sox losing last night’s game when they were one strike away from victory: one chance in 278 million. Jay Caspian Kang eschews calculating probabilities in favor of reveling in the reborn despair over the Olde Towne Team. Kang rhapsodizes, “We get to go back to our favorite pastime: complaining about this shitty team and its shitty GM and what the fuck is wrong with Crawford and did you hear what this guy told me about what John Lackey did when he was at that bar in the Back Bay?” Finally, Chad Finn performs an autopsy on the deceased team in a measured manner. Finn usually doesn’t call for heads but appeals to a rabid fan base to adopt cooler ones. However, in this column Finn urges John Lackey to “pack up the sneer and the sacks of unearned cash and just go away.” That surly starter was Finn’s only call for...

A Time to Sweep, a Time to Quaff

The Magic Snuggie was summoned but proved powerless to suppress the wave that the Rays rode to carry them within 3½ games of the wild card. What follows are random thoughts I used to distract myself from the horror of this game in particular and the series in general. Marco Scutaro has been on fire for the last two weeks: .400 batting average, .440 on-base percentage, and .578 slugging percentage. He was the only Boston batter to score last night; his third-inning home run brought the Red Sox within two runs of the home team. The Rays catcher’s surname sounds like name of an Autobot. “Lobaton, transform!” Turning and turning in the widening Guyer The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are Fuld of passionate intensity. The Red Sox are 9-7 when Don and Jerry wear polo shirts. Game 146: September 11, 2011 Boston Red Sox85-61 1 L: Jon Lester (15-7)HR: Marco Scutaro (6) Tampa Bay Rays81-64 9 W: James Shields (15-10)2B: Sean Rodriguez (20), B.J....

Please Don’t Be Long

Well it only goes to showAnd I told them where to goAsk a policeman on the streetThere’s so many there to meetPlease don’t be long, please don’t you be very longPlease don’t be long or I may be asleep“Blue Jay Way” — The Beatles Pitchers’ duels are like a dining experience at a Michelin four-star restaurant where they don’t monitor ingredients that patrons have severe allergic reactions to. Most people can revel in the glory of skilled professionals plying their trade, but a number of the participants may find themselves writhing in potentially lethal agony due to anaphylactic shock. Such was the case for Red Sox fans who through nearly four hours of baseball on their Labor Day holiday only to have their hope for victory fly away with Brett Lawrie’s two-out home run in the bottom of the 11th inning. The emerging third baseman has all the makings of a Red Sox killer: dazzling, rally-killing defensive plays, smart, aggressive baserunning, and a knack for a timely hit. Marco Scutaro played like an embedded Blue Jay. In the fifth the shortstop doubled to center field with one down. He tripped while trying to advance to third on Jacoby Ellsbury’s tapper...

Hurricane Rally

Guillermo Moscoso’s name sounds like he should be an executive chef at a Michelin three-star restaurant or an avant-garde choreographer debuting his work at Masdanza. Instead of those lofty professions this Moscoso faced off against Jon Lester on a slick, muddy mound in the opening game of a day-night doubleheader. The Red Sox scored in each inning they faced Moscoso. In the first inning Marco Scutaro knocked the ball off the top of the scoreboard, a ricochet that allowed the shortstop to advanced to second base. Safe at second, safe and secure with Dunkin Donuts newest Coolatta flavor, Minty Mantis. Scutaro advanced to third base on Adrian Gonzalez’s ground out and scored on Dustin Pedroia’s sharp grounder off the left field stands. Cliff Pennington pursued the ball into shallow left field and fired to Jemile Weeks just in time to swipe tag Pedroia. Pedroia’s quick reaction time often allow him to evade such tags, but Weeks seems to have similarly honed his reflexes. Gonzalez led off the third with a double off the wall. Pedroia followed up with a five-pitch walk and both scored on David Ortiz’s liner to left-center. The Red Sox second baseman missed the plate on his...

And I Wonder

Still I wonder: who’ll stop this game? It wasn’t Dustin Pedroia, who extended his hitting streak to 22 games with a two-out single in the bottom of the third but left four men on base. Nor was it Carl Crawford, who had hit well upon his return from the disabled list and even scored the local nine’s only run of the game, but struck out four times and grounded into a double play to end a scoring opportunity in the fourth. Indubitably it was not Marco Scutaro, who missed the sign for the squeeze play in the twelfth inning and got Josh Reddick caught up between third and home for the second out. The Red Sox shortstop then lined the ball to left and thought that he could stretch a single into a double. He could not. Of all players it was rookie Eric Hosmer who broke the stalemate. He led off the fourteenth with line drive double to left and advanced on Jeff Francoeur’s single up the middle. Ned Yost put on the squeeze play and although Mike Aviles failed to execute the bunt properly he did managed to pop the ball up so that neither Pedroia nor Adrian...

Cliff Hanger

After rookie Domonic Brown clubbed his fifth home run of the year the only suspenseful aspect of the game was not whether the Red Sox would win but whether they would get no-hit. The two-run margin Brown’s second inning four-bagger provided would be more than enough for the Phillies to reach their 50th victory. Appropriately enough, Shane Victorino, who hails from the 50th state, was on the basepaths when Brown deposited his home run ball into the bullpen. He added onto the lead in the bottom of the sixth with a two-run longball of his own. Cliff Lee not only pitched nine scoreless innings but lofted a fly ball deep to left to plate Brown in the fifth. The southpaw hurler hit the ball harder and farther than any Boston batter hit him. Kevin Youkilis broke up the perfect game by leading off the second with a four-pitch base on balls and Marco Scutaro ended the no-hitter with a line drive single to left to start the sixth. Beckett failed to bunt Scutaro over and when he was instructed to swing away he grounded into a double play. The Red Sox needed the bat and ball Jimmy Rollins used to...

Not So Hairy Garcia

The title is not a comment on Freddy Garcia’s current coif or his lack of allegiance to a team in the Stanley Cup Finals but rather refers to his utter lack of velocity. Garcia threw variations of, as Dennis Eckersley would say, soft salad, nothing balls, and dead fishes, leading to his departure with a mere 1⅔ innings under his belt. Although the Yankees nipped at the Red Sox’s heels until the last inning, the visitors’ early lead sustained them. Jacoby Ellsbury led off the first with a four-bagger to right. Dustin Pedroia reached on a base on balls and was tripled in by Adrian Gonzalez. That is not a typographical error. Kevin Youkilis capped off the scoring with a sacrifice fly to left and the Yankees were lucky the Red Sox only scored three runs. Pedroia might be showing flashes of a return to laser show status: he doubled in the second to plate Jarrod Saltalamacchia. David Ortiz started building his case for AL Player of the Month for June with a two-run no-doubter to right. His subsequent bat flip might result in a ball in the ribs sometime in the next two games, but he has some padding...

Ace Off

Nothing like facing a trio of aces to get your hitters into midseason form. Dennis Eckersley brought up the assassin’s string of Felix Hernandez, Jered Weaver, and Dan Haren to Terry Francona in their in-game interview. “Thanks, Eck,” the skipper grimly replied. It was the top of the fifth inning and the only hit Haren had given up to that point was a ground ball single to right off the bat of Carl Crawford. Eckersley and Don Orsillo joked about the Hall of Famer keeping a book on the batters he faced. The very notion made Eckersley guffaw. “Straight to the dugout and, I gassed him,” mimicking as if he were keeping a journal. They laugh now but Curt Schilling’s books might make it into Cooperstown if he does. Manny Ramirez, who mocked Schilling when the pitcher was poring over his book, probably won’t. Haren and Jon Lester both benefited from John Hirschbeck’s expansive strike zone. “I love that umpire,” sighed Eckersley dreamily. Not that Haren needs a favorable zone. Despite looking like he gets his food from a soup kitchen the pitcher has superb command. By the sixth inning, however, Haren’s pitches were catching too much of the plate...

The Gordian Slot

Solving the knotty problem of Rick Dempsey’s garrulousness and Jerry Remy’s absence was Gordon Edes of ESPN Boston. The sportswriter amiably provided facts without overwhelming viewers with minutia. All in all Edes filled in quite admirably for Remy. That is more than can be said for Marco “Scoots” Scutaro. The shortstop was put in the game for his success against Brad Bergerson but went 0-for-4. Scoots also failed on a bunt attempt in the seventh that would have put Carl Crawford, who represented the go-ahead run, 90 feet from home. Jacoby Ellsbury grounded out to second to advance Crawford to third and a different middle infielder came through. Dustin Pedroia nubbed a nasty pitch just hard enough and far enough for Crawford to dash home and break the 3-2 tie. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who like Scutaro lost his starting role, was in the box with ducks on the pond twice in the game. In the sixth he barely missed clearing the bases with a shot to the warning track in center field. But in the eighth the backstop knocked in an insurance run with a grounder up the middle. Jon Lester notched his third win and extended his winning streak against...

Home Free

Alex Rodriguez was scratched from the lineup, an absence that Josh Beckett would appreciate. The third baseman has an impressive line against Beckett: .286 batting average, .365 on-base percentage, and .518 slugging percentage in the 56 at bats they have squared off against each other. Looking over the splits the Yankees in general have hit Beckett well, but the starter bucked the trend in the series finale. The righty was reminiscent of his 2003 self that won the World Series MVP. Beckett had the second quality start by a Red Sox starter: 8 innings pitched, 2 hits, no runs, 1 walk, and 10 strikeouts. If starts were graded like beef, Beckett’s would only be available at fine restaurants. Of course it was the sparkplug of the team, Dustin Pedroia, who scored the first run. Pedroia led off the third with a single up the middle and scrambled to third on Adrian Gonzalez’s rope to right. Kevin Youkilis walked to load the bases. Then David Ortiz grounded out to Robinson Cano. The Yankees second baseman relayed to Derek Jeter, who had no problem completing the double play with a toss to Mark Teixeira. Pedroia seemed to score on the twin killing,...

Sorry Seems to Be the Easiest Word

Manny Ramirez dominated the headlines not because of what he did on the field (a decent 2-for-4 showing but no extra base hits or runs batted in) but because of what he said. Ramirez apologized for his behavior in 2008. “Everything was my fault, but you have to be a real man to realize when you do wrong,” he told reporters. “It was my fault, right. I already passed that stage. I’m happy. I’m on a new team.” A real man wouldn’t shove an elderly man. So what about Pedro Martinez playing matador to the charging Don Zimmer you might ask. That doesn’t count; Zimmer is an elderly gerbil. A real man wouldn’t inject himself with female fertility hormone as part of a steroid regime. A real man wouldn’t wait two years to admit that he was wrong. How genuine is his contrition in light of the fact that he is a free agent next season and has to buff up his tarnished reputation? The only success the Red Sox had was in the execution of the “fake to third” ploy. Of all players Omar Vizquel was lured off of third base when Clay Buchholz feinted a throw in his...

Marco! Scutaro!

He doesn’t have calm eyes or a signature throw, but he’s no Lugo, either. His name will infest your brain with the chorus “Sussudio,” but he has filled the role of leadoff hitter in Jacoby Ellsbury’s absence admirably. Scu, scu, Scutaro! Whoa oh! The Red Sox shortstop tied the game in the seventh with a two-run homer off Mark Hendrickson. For a relief pitcher, Hendrickson is a pretty good professional basketball player. The towering reliever sparked an inferno – after the home run he walked J.D. Drew. Buck Showalter pulled Hendrickson in favor of Alfredo Simon who gave up an RBI double to Victor Martinez. Adrian Beltre didn’t cotton well to having David Ortiz intentionally walked ahead of him and lofted a shot that landed into the first row of the left field stands. The three-run shot padded the lead and Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon paired to protect it. Who can blame any Orioles pitcher for being terrible? They are shadowed by an odd female fan who mimics their every move as they warm up in their bullpen. One of Showalter’s first moves should have been filing a restraining order against her, but despite the oversight he has turned...

Pinstripes Are Not Slimming

I had chalked this up to a loss even before the first pitch was thrown, but John Lackey pitched competently enough to keep the Yankees to a handful of runs and was supported by perfect innings by Manny Delcarmen and Felix Doubront. When two questionable relievers hold the line in a pressure-packed situation, you hope that the offense will come through and notch a run or two. The Red Sox shot out to an early lead in the second by virtue of Victor Martinez’s leadoff homer and consecutive doubles by Adrian Beltre and Mike Lowell. After the second inning the visiting batters managed a mere four baserunners: singles by Marco Scutaro and Beltre, a base on balls by J.D. Drew, and Darnell McDonald reaching on Ramiro Pena’s error. Pena filled in at third for Alex Rodriguez. In typical Rodriguez fashion the third baseman was scratched from the game because of a freak injury during batting practice. Rodriguez was too preoccupied saying hi to Joe Buck that he didn’t realize Lance Berkman peppered a ball straight at him. After the strike to the shin Rodriguez was shown rolling on the turf in agony, like Cristiano Ronaldo. X-rays were negative. The last-minute...

Yankee Doodle Do or Die

With two down and the count 3-2 in the first inning David Ortiz tried to bombard Monument Cave with his home run ball, his 21st of the season. In Nouveau Stade Fasciste the open-air museum is protected from onslaught by netting, so circuit clouts no longer bounce impertinently amongst the marble slabs. The Yankees answered back in the bottom frame of the first with a two-run shot off the bat of Mark Teixeira. The first baseman took advantage of one of the few poor pitches hurled by Clay Buchholz, who notched his 12th victory with his 7⅓ innings, 9 hits, 3 earned runs, and 4 strikeout outing. He can celebrate his win along with the birth of his first child, a daughter he and his wife Lindsay named Colbi, born a mere two days ago. The visitors took back the lead second. Javier Vazquez, who never looks comfortable against the Red Sox, failed to peel off on Mark Lowell’s infield pop-up to Francisco Cervelli. Vazquez’s battery partner dropped the ball, allowing Lowell to reach first safely and Adrian Beltre to take third. It seemed like Vazquez was trying too hard to make the play himself, as if he had something...

Remove Helmet, Touch Head

Get your mind out of the gutter, not that head. I speak of Marco Scutaro and Victor Martinez, the tandem who launched a combination attack on Adrian Beltre’s head after his fourth-inning grand slam. The shortstop trotted up behind Beltre to remove the third baseman’s helmet and catcher massaged Beltre’s melon. As Beltre mans the hot corner he has a fast reaction time, but not even his reflexes could fend off that fiendish duo. Up until the fourth inning rookie Josh Tomlin was enjoying a perfect game. Scutaro sent a single over the third base bag with one out and Martinez and Drew walked to load the bases. Beltre’s fly ball cleared the Green Monster and the crowd erupted. Daisuke Matsuzaka has gotten over his first-half inconsistency and first inning jitters at last. In his eight innings on the mound the starter allowed 5 hits, 1 earned run, 2 walks, and 6 strikeouts. That he got to the eighth was particularly beneficial with a four-game series against the Yankees looming. Even with a 6-1 lead Terry Francona couldn’t guide his team to a win without burning one of best relievers. Hideki Okajima took over in the ninth and struggled to...

The Maim Game

Papelbon, Papelbon, bo-ba-pelbon Banana-fana, fo-fa-felon Fee-fi-mo-apelbon What the f*ck was that? Clay Buchholz pitched a sterling eight innings and watched the dint of his efforts get hammered into a shape unrecognizable by Jonathan Papelbon. Buchholz left two runners on base, none out, and MVP-candidate Miguel Cabrera at the dish for the closer, so it wasn’t an easy save. But for Papelbon, lately there have been no easy saves. Cabrera’s inevitable double plated two runners. Papelbon struck out Brennan Boesch, formerly a candidate for the AL Rookie of the Year but slumping of late. Jhonny Peralta, acquired from the Indians, has proved to be a spark plug for the Tigers. The infielder singled up the middle to plate Don Kelly, who Jim Leyland pinch ran for Cabrera. As ill-advised as it was for Terry Francona to send Buchholz to the mount to attempt to notch the novelty of a complete shutout, it was still smarter than Leyland pulling Cabrera. He must have had supreme confidence two things: Papelbon blowing the lead and Boston’s offense unable to make up the deficit. Then again, the Red Sox batters failed to get an extra base hit over the course of eight innings, why would...

California Dreaming

I’d be safe and warm... safe and secure, [largest mutual life insurance company’s name here]. Organ flourish. As the Red Sox may not make the playoffs they might as well take out as many teams as they can as they play out the rest of the season. Going into this series the Angels had a half-game edge over Oakland and trailed Texas by seven games. Anaheim had just acquired Dan Haren and Kevin Youkilis disposed of him with a liner off the forearm. While Haren won’t have to make a trip to the disabled list, Boston severely hobbled the Angels’ chances taking over the AL West with the series sweep. Mike Scioscia had to patch together a start with relief arms beginning with Scot Shields. The last time Shields was used as a starter was September 23, 2003, a seven-inning win. Seven years of relief pitching is no way to prepare for a sport start and Shields was chased from the game after a mere one and two-third innings of work. The visitors feasted on the hodgepodge of hurlers; only Darnell McDonald and Jeremy Hermida didn’t get hits. Eric Patterson was a home run shy of the cycle and Marco...

Dr. Strangeglove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Team

John Lackey denied the Mariners his essence, carrying a no-hitter into the eighth. Of all batters to break up the bid it had to be Josh Bard, the former Red Sox catcher who was part of the ill-fated 2006 squad. He was part of the Coco Crisp trade, another player that has found himself on a West Coast club. It wasn’t a cheap hit but a soundly hit line drive single to right. Jack Wilson followed with a ground ball single, but Lackey exited the inning unscathed. The disturbing pattern of bunches of hits would continue with Manny Delcarmen. Delcarmen faced four batters but failed to get an out. Light-hitting Franklin Gutierrez, with Chone Figgins on first, knocked a two-run homer into the left field seats just above the Fenway-like manual scoreboard. How the colors on Lackey’s face must have changed as the game went from a no-hitter to a 6-3 affair. After Gutierrez’s dinger came another improbable event: a walk by Jose Lopez, a batter who has 16 walks in 383 at bats this season. What followed wasn’t so rare, unfortunately. Marco Scutaro Merkin Muffleyed Milton Bradley’s batted ball, turning a double play into two men on with none...

Not So Easy Lee

Darnell McDonald devours left-handed pitching. The splits say it all: .288 versus .262 batting average, a less striking difference in on-base percentage (.333 compared to .328), but a huge gap in slugging (an impressive .507 compared to .361). So it was not too surprising for the platoon player to come through in the first with a one-out double off the wall. Julio Borbon bobbled David Ortiz’s fly ball to center, allowing McDonald to cross home for the first run of the game. Kevin Youkilis followed the designated hitter with a nifty single to left, and as they had done to many a Cy Young award-winning pitcher such as Cliff Lee before backed their opposition into a corner early. Adrian Beltre grounded into a 4-6-3 double play, hobbling along the first base line, and the local nine did not have another baserunner until the fifth inning. John Lackey nearly matched Lee inning for inning until the sixth. Ian Kinsler, Josh Hamilton, and Nelson Cruz sprayed Texas Leaguers about the field and Vladimir Guerrero refrained from swinging at anything in sight for a base on balls and the visitors inched ahead for a 2-1 lead. Lackey rebounded in the seventh against the...

One-Hit Wonder

Daisuke Matsuzaka must be walking on sunshine after his near no-hitter, an eight-inning gem in which he only surrendered a handful of baserunners. The pitcher allowed the pair of Placido Polanco and Raul Ibanez to reach first base twice on bases on balls but also struck out five. Had Matsuzaka had a 無安打 [Japanese for no-hitter, pronounced muanda], it would have been the fifth no-hitter caught by Jason Varitek. Instead, it was his seventh one-hitter. There is something about Varitek’s ability to bring out the best in his pitching, but that value was attenuated over recent seasons by his offensive decline. The balance between his backstop brilliance and part-time position has finally been struck in 2010. He got knocked down, but he got up again. The most memorable Red Sox one-hitter was Pedro Martinez’s 17-strikeout domination of the Yankees on September 10, 1999. Three years ago on June 7 Curt Schilling carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning. One out away from history he shook off Varitek and Shannon Stewart rapped a single to right. Jon Lester one-hit the Royals on July 18, 2006 and would battle back from cancer to no-hit Kansas City in 2008. In the first inning...


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